Happy Makara Sankranti
Jan. 14th, 2010 10:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rowanfOn this day in Maharashtra, India, Makara Sankranti is celebrated. It is traditional for people to give sesame sweets to each other in order to increase the love between them and to forget whatever grudges or ill will they may have had.
Alone each seed is very small, yet each seed does provide for good energy. Without anything sweet to bind sesame seeds together they remain scattered. So, today is the day that people are asked to add sweetness - honey, or sweet syrup to the seeds. *Sweetness* bonds seeds together so they become a more powerful force.
The tradition is also to say to each other, 'Teelgool ghyaa aani god god bolaa. Take this sweetened sesame and let us... resolve to speak sweetly.' So have the sweetest day!
(info from my United Religions lists)
Alone each seed is very small, yet each seed does provide for good energy. Without anything sweet to bind sesame seeds together they remain scattered. So, today is the day that people are asked to add sweetness - honey, or sweet syrup to the seeds. *Sweetness* bonds seeds together so they become a more powerful force.
The tradition is also to say to each other, 'Teelgool ghyaa aani god god bolaa. Take this sweetened sesame and let us... resolve to speak sweetly.' So have the sweetest day!
(info from my United Religions lists)
